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Cheapest bass you just LOVE

#4
I LOVE and that is being subtle, I LOVE my Classic Vibe Jazz, completely original with rounds, it just feels good, plays great, and has one hell of a nice sound to it.

I mean, I own a real Pre CBS 62 Jazz and there's times where I just prefer the CV Jazz. If that's not saying something about how great these basses are, what else ever could?
 
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#6
My 1993 fender standard jazz is outstanding. I think the earlier MIM jazzes had something going for them. Mostly the woods just feel different than newer ones, and the fretjob is amazing. The pickups are pretty good. This is when the bridge and neck pups were the same size. Candy apple red, or whichever finish they called it. Definitely a looker, and now it has aged considerably and the neck has a nice tint to it, with the pickguard aging and shrinking a bit as well.
 
#7
I still have my 94' and 95' Ibanez SR 500 Soundgear basses. Brand new they were $500.00 each. Now, they are worth maybe half that but up until 2010 when I switched over to Music Man, almost everything I did in the Christian music industry, I did with those two basses so they have a lot of sentimental value. They have also been very reliable. Never have had a single issue with either one of them and there tone is actually pretty good. Even there craftsmanship is good for the money I paid.
 
#9
1SHOT1HIT said:
I LOVE and that is being subtle, I LOVE my Classic Vibe Jazz, completely original with rounds, it just feels good, plays great, and has one hell of a nice sound to it.

I mean, I own a real Pre CBS 62 Jazz and there's times where I just prefer the CV Jazz. If that's not saying something about how great these basses are, what else ever could?
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+1! Another vote for the Squier CV 60's Jazz!

I paid $245 for it brand-spanking new back in '09. I love it! I may never sell it.
 
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1SHOT1HIT said:
I LOVE and that is being subtle, I LOVE my Classic Vibe Jazz, completely original with rounds, it just feels good, plays great, and has one hell of a nice sound to it.

I mean, I own a real Pre CBS 62 Jazz and there's times where I just prefer the CV Jazz. If that's not saying something about how great these basses are, what else ever could?
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Technically, your '62 could go on this list for what you paid for it.
 
#12
I was gigging a Korean Rockbass Corvette for quite a while. It sounded just slightly thin on the G string, but other than that, it just had an all-around pleasing, basic jack-of-all-trades bass sound. Payed my bills for several years!
 
#14
My Epiphone Embassy Special IVs. Cannot say enough good things about them, construction is really quite good (I tore the shaft out of the volume pot of one of them in a freak knob-switching accident but no harm, no foul as it now sports a CTS), the tone... my Brie (soon to be strung with [DEL]Roto 66Ns[/DEL] and had the pot and cap swapped) gave a Fender Select P a run for her money tonewise in the degraded used state she began in in the store. That was impressive (and that's not to say anything about Rhea, the monster with the superlight Chromes that I can get to rattle the glass in my apartment without much effort). Sad that they discontinued them... I'd totally have one in every color (2 out of 4! w00t :D)

--Silvie

EDIT: Oh, prices. Rhea ran me... let's see $95 for the bass + $30 for Chromes + $16 bridge cover + $2 thumbrest = $143.
Brie is at $130 for the bass + $26 for SR2000s + $0.85 for knobs + $3 for superglue + free cap + $5 pot + $3 piece of ebony for a thumbrest =166.85.

I'd say that's a good haul.
 
#15
This no-name P-bass, which I got at a pawn shop for $47. New rounds was all I needed.

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